At Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:05:22 -0400 Eben King <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/7/26 15:21, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:18:25 -0400 Eben King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> I have a need to find the upgradable package with the most dependencies. > > Why do you need to do this? And why does speed matter? > > Generally, I dislike it when lots of things change at the same time, so > rather than going through my upgradable packages periodically and > updating the lot of them, I run a cron job that, once a day, upgrades a > package chosen at random from the list of upgradable packages. I got to > thinking it might be bad to update some parts of a package and not > others, so I want to upgrade those at the top of their tree of dependencies. > > It needs to be fast because I want to cause as little disturbance as > possible. Technically it doesn't, it'll work as it is, it just scratches > and itch to get it done with. >
Typically, with a LTS release, the updates rarely cause any disruptive changes. On my public-facing VPS system I just run the updates every Sunday. The amount of updates that arrive in a weeks time is generally low. > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
